Ken Burns

...he has generated by his arrival and for his commitment to the L.A. Phil's youth orchestra program. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, for reminding us of the uniqueness, preciousness and fragility of our national parks. The U.S. Food and...

In this article: Gustavo Dudamel, Barack Obama, Los Angeles, Maine, Climate change, Environmental Protection Agency, Time Magazine, and William J. Bratton

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Bette Davis, Albert Einstein, World War II, London Sunday Times, and John D. Rockefeller

Just two months after Ken Burns canonized Theodore Roosevelt, James Bradley comes along to demonize him. Burns' PBS documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, presented the 26th president as a hero of the fledgling conservation...

In this article: Theodore Roosevelt, James Bradley, William Howard Taft, Asia, Iwo Jima, Pacific, Japan, White supremacy, and World War I

Popularized in many of the highly acclaimed PBS documentaries produced by filmmaker Ken Burns, the technique of turning historic still images into something more palatable for a television audience (by slowly panning across the images, and...

In this article: PBS

...once, gets respect in a jazz history, and fusion - the real thing, as done by Miles Davis and his compatriots - gets more due than Ken Burns and his ilk would ever afford. George Russell's complicated theories about chords' relation to one...

In this article: Louis Armstrong, Jazz, Albert Ayler, Gary Giddins, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Suicide, and George Russell

...experience that much. All in all, "World War II in HD" is a triumph of documentary film making that should do for World War II what Ken Burns' "Civil War" did for that conflict; bringing the viewer up close to the war while allowing us to...

In this article: World War II, History Channel, Victory at Sea, Unemployment, World War I, Civil War, and Robert Graves

...in an archival still from the documentary "WWII in HD." (Library of Congress / HIstory Channel / November 12, 2009) Time was when Ken Burns documented something, it pretty much closed the subject. Yet two years after Burns took on World...

In this article: World War II, History Channel, Library of Congress, U.S. Army, Ron Livingston, and Richard Tregaskis

...year among 360 sites where the National Park Service tracks attendance. Rangers at the lonely visitors center here hope a Ken Burns film on national parks will draw people and help them make their case that the Thomas Stone site is not a...

In this article: Maryland, Thomas Stone National Historic Site, National Park Service, and World War II

...World War II Memorial on Washington's National Mall, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. In 2007, a 15-hour-long Ken Burns documentary, The War, featured interviews with dozens of World War II veterans. Burns said he...

In this article: Veterans Day, United States, Armistice Day, World War II, World War I, Arlington National Cemetery, Korean War, and National Mall